By Martin Martinson

Youth explore their creative side at the Pastel Art Camp

Sep 11, 2018 | 2:00 PM

The Chapel Art Gallery is hosting a Half Day Art Camp using pastels on Sept. 24.

The camp is open for youth ages eight to 12 and will be designed to teach participants about various types of art using pastels, from oil pastels to chalk pastels, while also demonstrating fundamental techniques like shading and mixing colours.  

This will be the first-ever camp of its kind in the Battlefords.

Raven Bugler has worked at the Chapel Art Gallery for the last five years and is the main organizer for this event. She told battlefordsNOW how the idea for a camp around pastels came about.

“When we’re doing our whole program planning for the year, we try to create different programs that we think will draw interest from different children,” Bugler said. Everyone likes something different, so that’s why we try to change it up every month.”

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Bugler said the goal of the art camps like this one is simple.

“We’re just encouraging children in the community to get into art,” she said. “I know a lot of kids will enjoy it, and it’s a great way for the youth to have fun on days when they don’t have to go to school.”

The day of the event is a professional development day for all students who are part of the Living Sky School Division.

“We try to do an art camp on each professional development day of the school year, so that their parents have an option for them to come do some sort of learning instead of staying home or at the daycare,” she said.

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